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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bibliophiles assemble! When life gives you books...

  

  prices reduced up to 90% off. How could they afford to sell them for such ... unexpected details go a long way in raising your spirits. For me, that little ... ’s what I ended up with - I had to stop myself before it got out of hand

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 5, 2012
• Blog / Events

  This…Is…BLODGEBALL! Everything and anything you ever wanted to know about us.

  

  + Dodgeball = Blodgeball (credit to Emad). And far be it for me to deny an opportunity to violently throw balls at my co-workers, while jumping up and down ... was describing). Here's for all you folks who've ever wondered what the

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  A CPW Challenge I hope Chris Peterson doesn't fire me for too many prefrosh stealing his nametag...

  

  (capture the flag counts) For EXTRA BONUS POINTS: track me down! (Hint: I ... awesome events and have had a chance to collapse and sleep for the first ... * looking forward to what you're going to come up with through the magic of

  • by Kate R. '14
  • April 7, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Share Your CPW With Us! I can haz guest blogs?

  

  today. :) --- I just woke up, oddly feeling nostalgic about CPW (this ... ! There is an old tradition where current bloggers open up our blogs to you ... compatible. :) This was your weekend, and we're curious how it went for you

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 11, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Waitlist, 2009 Within the next few days, we plan to make waitlist offers to complete the Class…

  

  For the fourth consecutive year, we will admit students from our ... admitted from the waitlist. Financial aid will follow up shortly thereafter ... students, approximately 50, on the waitlist for another few weeks until we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 13, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Debunked I clear things up.

  

  propped up in bed and listening to the Toy Story soundtrack. Anywho, I figured that if I was trying to keep up with my "entry every other day" pace ... me!? Decisions on the 22nd?????????? Ok, time for the debunking to

  • by Snively '11
  • March 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week of work

  

  made very difficult, but we can earn back up to half the points we lost ... -10 page (it ended up being 8 pages) paper due in 17.405, which is Politics ... Continuous Random Variables. For all that, though...I felt a little bogged

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 29, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Crazy Day

  

  My Wednesday: 9:00 AM -- Swim Test at the Zesiger (Z) Center. For ... campus. Groups and organizations of all types set up booths to display ... the MIT-France Program at an info session/reception For undergrads, the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Swiss Miss "The archangel Michael descends riding a triceratops."

  

  that in mind, I looked up the word for "umbrella" in Google translator ... . This is a dumb story, but scroll down for some more pictures. I left my ... , was compact enough to fit horizontally in my backpack when folded up

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  World Cup Final in Boston An MIT- and Boston-centric look at the Italian victory.

  

  , thousands of fans showed up at Boston's City Hall to watch the Final ... 's Little Italy. So many folks turned up to watch the match that Hanover ... greater excitement in the streets of Palermo. For France, though, all they

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Trip to Princeton U Taking advantage of the three-day weekend by taking a trip to Princeton!

  

  Three-day weekends seem like the perfect opportunity to catch-up on work and get ahead for the next week. Umm... right... it never really ... mtvU. He deferred for a year to be in Andrew Lippas' Broadway-bound A

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  class sketching an adventure in speedrunned pedagogy

  

  where you use Arduino to code up a control algorithm for a motor on a ... . Theory of computation - 18.404 The basic setup for this class, at the ... for any instance of the problem? We need something concrete acts as an

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • December 23, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  when apocalypse strikes… on being preemptively torn from my home, living group, and nearly everything i love at…

  

  floors like mine with strong communities, being split up for two years ... panic about our living situations for the next few months. My perspective ... days so that I’d have no regrets. For context, I live in Burton

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Painting with the Colors of the Wind reflections on the first MIT semester

  

  . Sure, making up prior work was scary, but the deadlines for that passed ... the ear buds. Dimmed cabin lights are perfect for introspection. My ... August. I messed up at times. Looking ahead, I can imagine few famously

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 23, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  AHHH CPW!! Goal: Do ALL the things!

  

  world gather for the first time together in one spot to go up to random ... own feel for how you will do at MIT.  Sure, it's nice to maybe meet up ... Victoria will be staying with me!!!   Although Victoria and I planned for me

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Re-halloween Reuse, reduce, recycle, remember not to leave junk outside your door.

  

  dress up as their personal heroes for Halloween; some people dress up as ... literally, I dressed up as a piece of junk. As for accessories, I opted for ... laundry server for the latest news on conditions in Random's washers and

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interphase This entry has nothing to do with cell division

  

  cold shower for you and help you wake up: odds are, if you go to MIT, you ... sets up a mailing list over the summer (meant for sending out memos) that ... about deferring for a year, and here I am giving you information on how

  • by Karen F. '11
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Polymer Police Using spectroscopy to prove my mom wrong (except she was right and I was actually…

  

  , most of the tools would end up damaging the scarves in some way. For ... of. Unfortunately, by far the most common scientific test for silk is ... tools for characterizing materials. What if I just used one of those tools

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blended Learning at MIT benefits of technology in MIT classrooms

  

  /lab-based 3.032 (Mechanical Behavior of Materials). For some courses, the platform is the main source of learning. For others, it allows a blend of ... for online problems Charts and diagrams to connect class topics and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 23, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to survive your first winter: a college student’s guide written by a transplant from sunny Los Angeles

  

  MIT, this is a problem I wrestled for a while.  And I've learned that it ... winter break for a few days of ice climbing.  Temperatures dropped to ... .  Look, there's a reason I'm writing for MIT Admissions and not Vogue

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 12, 2015